Krokolithidae

Krokolithidae Temporal range: Campanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Egg fossil classification
Basic shell type:	† Crocodiloid
Oofamily:	† Krokolithidae Kohring and Hirsch, 1996
Oogenera
Krokolithes Bauruoolithus Suchoolithus

Krokolithidae is an oofamily of fossil crocodylomorph eggs. ^[1] The oogenus Mycomorphoolithus is closely related to the family, but not included in it. ^[2]

References

1. Russo, João; Mateus, Octávio; Marzola, Marco; Balbino, Ausenda (2017). "Two new ootaxa from the late Jurassic: The oldest record of crocodylomorph eggs, from the Lourinha Formation, Portugal". PLOS ONE. 12 (3) e0171919. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171919 . PMC   5342183 . PMID   28273086.
2. Moreno-Azanza, Miguel; Ignacio Canudo, Jose; Manuel Gasca, Jose (2015). "Enigmatic Early Cretaceous ootaxa from Western Europe with signals of extrinsic eggshell degradation". Cretaceous Research . 56: 617–627. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.06.019.